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After Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865; often known as Alice in Wonderland), in which the protagonist changes size after consuming a potion and a cake.
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Today it means: A disorienting neurological condition involving micropsia, macropsia, or size distortion of other sensory modalities. Full definition →
After Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865; often known as Alice in Wonderland), in which the protagonist changes size after consuming a potion and a cake.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.